Technology and its future role in highschools...

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

For example in physics we learn about electricity and circuits, etc. but we don't actually get to see that in action. We don't build the circuits or see the effects by adding another load in parallel or series. Learning from a text book is great, but unless you put it to use you're not really learning and you will forget almost everything learned from "book learning". By doing it you remember and contain more. It's just a much more effective way of learning in my opinion.

Unfortunately you picked a really expensive subject to talk about. Depending on what you want to do it's horrendously expensive to equip a laboratory with anything beyond a multimeter and power supply. Then again I never really used anything beyond a multimeter,resistor box, and power supply in my physics course. Im not even sure if the multimeter I used was digital either. Personally, my high school has a cool technology department. I was one of the last people to actually get to create and etch their own circuit boards in an electronics class. Hehehe... I also got to play with electrophoresis to look at fake DNA.